In last monthâs State of the Union address, President Obama called on
Congress to pass âlegislation that will secure our country from the
growing dangers of cyber threats.â The Hill was way ahead of him, with
over 50 cybersecurity bills introduced this Congress. This week, both
the House and Senate are moving on their versions of consolidated,
comprehensive legislation.

The reason cybersecurity legislation is so pressing, proponents say, is
that we face an immediate risk of national disaster.

Yet evidence to sustain such dire warnings is conspicuously absent. In
many respects, rhetoric about cyber catastrophe resembles threat
inflation we saw in the run-up to the Iraq War. And while Congressâ
passing of comprehensive cybersecurity legislation wouldnât lead to war,
it could saddle us with an expensive and overreaching cyber-industrial
complex.

In 2002 the Bush administration sought to make the case that Iraq
threatened its neighbors and the United States with weapons of mass
destruction (WMD). By framing the issue in terms of WMD, the
administration conflated the threats of nuclear, biological, and
chemical weapons. The destructive power of biological and chemical
weaponsâwhile no doubt horrificâis minor compared to that of nuclear
detonation. Conflating these threats, however, allowed the
administration to link the unlikely but serious threat of a nuclear
attack to the more likely but less serious threat posed by biological
and chemical weapons.

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